Real Player

Helix Player is GPLed. Good news for the Linux community, as you can then
use it for real audio and other stuff on Linux. Multimedia availability for
Linux will go a long way in making it easy for desktop stuff.

See here
for download information.

Storage Galore

This is insane. From no storage, I go upto 2.1 gigs in like 3 days. First Gmail . Then Yahoo! gives away 100 M and now Rediffmail gives away a GB. Somebody send me email, fast.

Gmail

Congratulations to me. I just moved up one more step in the echelons of
geekdom. After orkut, I finally get my
gmail invite. So here I am ajayvb AT
gmail DOT com .

There's more than one way to do this

I've been meaning to do some more useful stuff with Perl since forever.
This seems like a good way to go about doing it.

http://www.ebb.org/PickingUpPerl/

Firewalls for dummies

This one's a good article on getting started with using iptables for
securing your linux box.

http://linuxgazette.net//103/murray.html